CPAN - A big enough lever to install the world

CPAN - A big enough lever to install the world

By Hans Dieter Pearcey (‎confound‎) from pgh.pm
Date: Monday, June 22, 2009 01:00 PM
Duration: 50 minutes
Target audience: Intermediate
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Tags: cpan maintenance

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CPAN is a huge source of power for Perl programmers. Various dangers can, like Kryptonite, drain this power from you. "I'd like to use this module, but my sysadmin won't install anything that isn't in the OS package manager." Does this sound like you? Do not give in! Learn how to tame your operations staff using such techniques as

* CPAN Distroprefs
* cpan2dist, PAR, local::lib
* CPAN::Mini
* and more!

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Attended by: Jonathan Swartz, Ricardo Signes (‎rjbs‎), Jesse Luehrs (‎doy‎), Arthur Schmidt (‎fREW‎), Greg Foster, Robert Buels (‎rbuels‎), Hans Dieter Pearcey (‎confound‎), Nicholas Perez (‎nperez‎), Chris Nehren (‎apeiron‎), Adam Foxson (‎Fhoxh‎), Darian Patrick (‎dapatrick‎), Olaf Alders (‎oalders‎), Geoffrey Darling (‎Geoff‎), Andrew Walker (‎Andy‎), Josh ben Jore (‎diotalevi‎), Joakim Lagerqvist, Chris Muench (‎blasto333‎), Duane Brown (‎duaneb‎), splitbit, Greg Alheid, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (‎miyagawa‎), George Hartzell, Kevin Falcone (‎jibsheet‎), J. Nick Koston (‎bdraco‎), Michael Aquilina (‎aquilina‎),